Kateri Boucher

Sneak a Peek at Geez’s Advent 2023 booklet: Prayers for the End of the World by Drew Stever | Published 26th September 2023 Prayers for the End of the World “We cannot pray our way out of the climate catastrophe that is upon us. But prayer is perhaps one way to encourage a change in our posture towards the earth . . . Prayer leaves a pregnant pause in which the earth can respond.

Dear Kateri, I’ve been thinking about you today. I recently found your journal – our first journal – documenting your life in 6th grade. It’s got a dragonfly on the front and a handwritten note labelled “Private :)”. Amidst the many pages describing your middle school joys and woes, you mention more than once your fears of “Global Warming.” I remember: this is a big year for you in learning about the climate. You go to see An Inconvenient Truth and take it in with wide and serious eyes.

“What time is it on the clock of the world?” Detroit, Michigan-based activist and scholar Grace Lee Boggs began organizing meetings with this question. No matter how seemingly-small the scope of the meeting, this question allowed everyone to zoom out and think on the scale of the world. Whether we are aware of it or not, our lives are tied up with the lives of those all around the planet.